Contests

To celebrate the highly anticipated launch of its new Kentucky Grilled Chicken, fast food chain KFCwas giving away gratis pieces of grilled chicken to customers. To help promote the offer Oprah Winfrey added her celebrity heft in marketing the offer. Usually whenever the Big "O" gets involved, the world listens. Well, in this case, KFC's innovative viral campaign came to a crashing halt when the chicken-lickin' demand exceeded its paltry poultry supply.

Jordan Knight promised to release the true meaning of "tink!" and has announced the winner of theNew Kids on the Block's NYC Today Show contest. Virally, Jordan's one-word tweet of "tink!" has exploded onto the Twitterverse into a global frenzy exciting a fan base who just can't get enough! From tens of thousands tweets to tink! cartoons, tink! products and even an Ashton Kutcher Platinum Tweet Award, tink! has taken on a life of its own.

In an effort to capitalize on the buzz created by "tink!" Jordan Knight and other members of the New Kids on the Block band will be flying two "contest winning" fans to NYC. The viral social media experiment originally initiated by Jordan Knight on Twitter appears to have formulated a life of its own as NKOTB fans have been tweeting themselves silly trying to figure out just what tink! means.

LG Mobile Phones, Autodesk®, and crowdSPRING are partnering to sponsor
the Design The Future competition searching for the mobile phone of the
future. And, guess what? They welcome submissions from novices and
even give you the tools you need to win.

Filming is almost complete for the new 5-week reality TV show, Stars Of
Science, in which 16 inventors from the Arab world will strutt their
stuff, competing for best invention and a $300,000 cash prize.
Sponsored by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community
Development, the format is not too similar to the American Inventor
series, and Simon Cowell does not appear to be involved in this
production.

A talented, 15-year-old Russian orphan has won the competition to design the space mission emblem that is certain to go down in space travel history. Read on for more information about this very special contest and its extraordinary winner.

What's a city to do when it creates 500,000 tons of electronic waste a
year? That's the amount of e-waste projected in New York City for
2010, the year the Big Apple will have a dedicated waste bin - the 4th Bin
-- specifically for all the obsolete or broken electronics... the
computers, DVD players, tape players, TVs, even batteries... all the
stuff New Yorkers and everyone else has been throwing in the trash that
ends up as toxic waste, leeching into the soil and poisoning the
underground water.

Edison Nation announced today that the WD-40® Company is challenging
inventors to come up with a new delivery system for the product's many uses and
to create new product concepts that have wide-reaching applicability and purpose, like
WD-40. Put your thinking caps on, these tasks are both difficult; your
solutions must be innovative and patentable.

Ophir Vermesh today became the first winner of the $30,000
Lemelson-Caltech Student Prize for his work in developing the
Integrated Blood-Barcode Chip (IBBC), as member of a team of
researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Vermesh is a graduate student in chemistry at Caltech.

Ladies, get your inventive minds in gear; a large company is actually
asking you for your ideas! That's right. Today Edison Nation
announced a new invention contest sponsored by Bed, Bath, and Beyond (B3)
that calls for product ideas to retail in its stores. This 'for women
only' invention contest is scheduled concomitant with the recognition
of American Women of Invention, this year recognizing the 200th
anniversary of the first woman* to receive a patent on her invention.

For some teenagers there are only a few months left before prom night arrives. While many of these teenagers are buying new dresses, new shoes, new jewelry, renting limos, etc., others are a concerned about the carbon footprint prom night leaves on the planet. To encourage a greener prom, maybe a greener lifestyle too, high school juniors and seniors are encouraged to enter the Project Green Prom Video Contest.

How can mobile phone applications enrich people's lives, helping individuals or groups to live better? If you have a solution for a mobile application, and think you know how to make it work, you should enter the N2Y4 Mobile Innovation Challenge,
sponsored by NetSquared.

The Grand Prize went to
eleven-year-old Tucker Haas from Charlotte, NC. His winning entry, entitled "My Personal Swing Thing," was inspired by
his younger sister Lexi, who has Kernicterus, a physical disorder
similar to cerebral palsy.